News in brief

News in brief
Here are a selection of brief news items from this week’s paper edition, and possibly a few news briefs that didn’t make it in the paper.
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On Movies: Death-row drama stays true to life
In Conviction, based on a nightmare true story, Sam Rockwell plays Massachusetts convict Kenneth Waters, sentenced to life in prison in 1983 for a murder he didn’t commit. It took his sister, Betty Anne Waters – Hilary Swank with a hardscrabble Bay State accent – 18 years to get Kenny released. A barkeep and a high school dropout, Betty Anne got her GED, went to college and then law school, in …
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